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Year: 1891  |  Province: Ontario  |  Wikidata: Q274120

Niagara Falls, Town—Ville, Ontario (1891 census)

Niagara Falls, Town—Ville was a town in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 1,179. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q274120. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.107°N, 79.072°W.

Population

In 1891, Niagara Falls, Town—Ville had a population of 1,179: 559 male and 620 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18911,179
19014,244

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Niagara Falls, Town—Ville shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 75 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 1,179 total population, 620 females, 559 males, 428 married persons, 270 families, 215 married males, 213 married females, 75 widowed persons, 62 widowed females, 13 widowed males, 4.40 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 676 single persons under 18, 345 single females under 18, 331 single males under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,178 persons who are not French Canadian, 1 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 268 occupied houses, 267 houses, 232 houses built of wood, 181 houses of 2 stories, 149 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 85 houses of 1 story, 32 houses built of brick, 32 houses of 4 rooms, 29 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 27 houses of 5 rooms, 20 houses of 3 rooms, 4 houses of over 15 rooms, 3 houses built of stone, 3 houses of 1 room, 3 houses of 2 rooms, 2 uninhabited houses, 1 dwellings that are vessels and shanties, 1 houses of 3 stories. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 2,830 pounds of homemade butter, 1,730 bushels of turnips, 1,589 chickens, 1,472 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 1,056 sheep slaughtered or sold, 890 bushels of potatoes, 766 bushels of corn, 721 bushels of oats, 403 cattle killed or sold, 394 acres of land in farms, 368 sheep, 360 acres of improved land in farms, 244 swine, 220 acres of farmland under crops, 160 swine slaughtered or sold, 116 horses aged over 3 years, 92 acres of farmland in pasture, 91 tons of hay, 82 ducks, 61 milk cows, 59 turkeys, 53 occupants of farms, 52 acres of hay crops, 48 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 47 farm occupants who own their land, 44 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 40 bushels of beans, 36 acres of oats, 34 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 30 bushels of barley, 25 bushels of peas, 21 horses aged 3 years and under, 14 other cattle, 11 acres of potatoes, 11 acres of turnips, 9 geese, 8 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 6 farm occupants who rent their land, 3 acres of barley, 2 other fowl, 1 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1891 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Niagara Falls, Town—Ville, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/niagara-falls-town-ville-on125007-1891/.